Improvement in attachments for sewing-machines



WILLIAM HENRY LEWITT.

lr'fi lgprovement in Attachment for Sewing Machines.

Patented'Nov. 14

INVENTUH.

ATTEET UNITED STATES FFICE,

PATENT WILLIAM HENRY LEWITT, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO THOMASM. COGHRANE, OF SAME PLACE.

IMPROVEMENT IN ATTACHMENTS FOR SEWING- MACHINES.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 120,887, dated November14, 1871.

To all whom it may concern: 7

Be it kn own that I, WILLIAM HENRY LEWITT,

of the city and county of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have inventeda certain Improved Ruffler, Hemmer, and Tuck-Greaser forSewing-Machines, of which the following is a specification:

My invention consists of a combined ruffler, hemmer, and tuck-creaserfor sewing-machines, as hereinafter described, and also, in connectionwith the ruffler, of a removable adjustable clothguide.

Figure 1 is a perspective view of my attachment as a tuck-creaser. Fig.2 shows the attachment as used for ruffling, and Fig. 3 as a hemmer.

The bottom plate A (shown most clearly in Fig. 2) has a slot, B, toreceive the screw 11, by which it is attached to the bed-plate. G is atongue attached to the bottom of the plate A or forming a part of thesame. a is a foot to support the further side of the plate A. The tongue0 has a side extension, 0, which lies over the strip of ruffling clothand separates it from the straight piece of cloth to which the ruffleris stitched. c is a finger above which both strips of cloth pass, thernfflin g strip passing through the slot 0 D is a cloth-guide, that maybe adjusted on the tongue 0 or removed therefrom. This guide has anupper and lower horizontal plate, 01 d grasping the tongue, and avertical plate, (1 forming the cloth-guide proper. It is used inruffling to guide the upper piece of cloth. E is an upturned flange,which is slotted horizontally to receive the graduated tongue f of thetuck-creaser. a are clips which hold the edges of the sliding plate F ofthe tuck-creaser.

The tuck-creaser is similar to that patented to J. G. Jensen December13, 1870, No. 110,045, except that the described ruffler O a c c isapplied thereto; and reference is made to said patent for description ofsaid tuck-creaser.

Attached to the heel of plate F is a volute hemmer, G, the plate Fhaving an orifice, f for the attaching-screw, as shown in Figs. 1 and 3.

I claim as my invention 1. The tuck-creaser, with its plate A O c c 0adapted for ruffling, as described.

2. As an article of manufacture, the described tuck-creaser, ruffler,and hemmer, constructed and arranged as set forth.

In testimony of which invention I have hereunto set my hand.

WILLIAM HENRY LEWITT.

